Jul 7, 2010

A Viking Funeral.

Well Oz lost a larrikan artist last Saturday night. His name was Brian Rohde. Brian had been a photographer, artist, sailor. He was never afraid to try anything new, never afraid to pass on his advice, and never scared to stick up for his opinions - whether they were right or wrong. We need more people like Brian Rohde.

Andrew, sorry, so is life. You say you need more people like him. A friend can not be replaced by another friend, but I believe that life is adding people around us that makes the friend who is no more is ever present.a hug

the water is amazing, what a beautiful tribute, and I agree, my online friends are as real as it gets to me and more supportive than my real world friends who honestly aren't really interested in my latest illustration, though they will pretend to care if I show them ;). By the way, have you heard anything out of Justin?

I think when you meet people on the Internet there are a lot of filters in place. I mean, you zoom in right to what you like about that person, Art, they way they write, etc. You do not have to deal with physical attributes, mannerisms that may be annoying or even charming. The Internet narrows the interests we have for each person. For example, we don't have to deal with political or religious views. We do not care whether the person graduated from college or has a PhD or merely a high school diploma. We are only interested on a few things, not the entire individual. I don't think that each blogger would like to share everything about them or make more things visible to the others. In real life we deal with actual behaviors that one must interact with actively. It isn't as if we talk to the person (comment) and that person can choose to respond or not (return comments later or tomorrow or not at all). In real life we expect people to interact with us.

We do know a lot about one aspect, in our case it is our art.

In real life we tend to want to know more about the person before we make a commitment. In the blogs we "follow", we link, yet there is annonymity and detachment. We are linked but not attached. In real life, we are actively engaged.

In the Internet, we put our best foot forward. Closer relationships are developed away from the blogs.

Love this! Sorry to see the motivation for it, but I think we can only be grateful for the people who touch our lives. Brian should be happy on the other side to have so many good things said about him.